Written by Daniel Ashton | 13 September 2011
Posted in web design

This new website (www.whitehorses-batham.co.uk) is part of Salcombe Web Design's sister company Your Holiday Home Website. Your Holiday Home Website provides a template based system to allow independant holiday home owners the opportunity to market their own accomodation through their own very proffessional website. The client can update their own website and their own availablity and bookings. Or our proffessional team can be on the end of the phone to carry out updates for you. Salcombe Web design are perffectly situated and along with our partners Pebbles of Salcombe we can help maximise the marketing of your property, providing you with excellent data on your return on investment. Pick up the phone and call 01548 843698 to speak to a member of the dedicated Your Holiday Home Website team.

Written by Daniel Ashton | 06 September 2011
Posted in web design

PayPal is the most popular platform for receiving online payments today. The ease of opening a PayPal account and receiving payments compared to opening a merchant account with a traditional payment gateway is probably the number one reason for its popularity, with a close second being the comprehensive API that PayPal provides for its payment services. In this post, I will break down some of the techniques and approaches to working with the PayPal API, in order to make integration and troubleshooting simpler and easier.Read more

Written by Daniel Ashton | 17 July 2011
Posted in web design

It's been a tough few months for many small and medium sized businesses in South Devon, although many people are still choosing to holiday at home this summer, if you're not trying to sell them the commodities they immediately need like food and household supplies then a little something extra is needed to help them part with their cash. Many businesses have been forced to slash their prices and cut profits to attract customers. This isn't the only answer. The Council For Industrial Design, now The Design Council was setup in post war Britain to encourage the redevelopment of the UK economy through design. They were a kind of broker, putting manufacturers in touch with designers, to solve some of the biggest problems facing post war Britain. The Design Council are still going today and their philosophy hasn't changed. A philosophy that's as apt today as it was during the years after World War II. Research has shown that design is a significant source of competitive advantage. Companies that invest in their design capability and develop a reputation for innovation can avoid competing on price alone. In the UK, 45 per cent of firms that don’t use design compete mainly on price; only 21 per cent of firms where design is significant do so. Investing in design allows businesses to compete in numerous ways. Firms that spend double the average amount on creative inputs – including design – are 25 per cent more likely to introduce product innovations. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Written by Daniel Ashton | 09 July 2011
Posted in web design

To realise the potential of the Web we need to review everything we are currently doing in business and in our personal lives. We need to let go of many of our favourite habits, old models, best practices, and much of our current language to "make room" for new things, new knowledge, new languages, and new possibilities. Web design is about broadening knowledge, enlarging our capacity for imagination, expanding business markets, creating new opportunities, saving time, reducing costs, and improving the quality of life by connecting people to people. Although most businesses on the Web have not gotten it right yet, the human desire to connect is clearly there. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone